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Dave Vondle

Dave Vondle is a Design Lead at IDEO's Chicago studio. He started at IDEO in 2005 with a background in Electrical Engineering and Design. At IDEO, he likes to focus on pairing appropriate technology with user needs and designing the experiences around them. He helped launch IDEO Labs back in 2008 and has been pleading with his peers to write content ever since.

"A few weeks ago, while I was in our workshop, I had an idea: modify Snapchat’s Spectacles into a pair of safety goggles."

A few weeks ago, while I was in our workshop, I had an idea: If I could modify Snapchat’s Spectacles into a pair of safety goggles, I could document our projects without ever picking up a camera. The purpose for these hybrid safety specs is threefold: We can post images of our projects or build […]

With the passing of IDEO co-founder Bill Moggridge, we have been reflecting on the ways he has influenced our lives and made the world a better place. Bill has had an enormous impact on the field of interaction design and professed the importance of making interactions delightful. For IDEO Labs, we wanted to do a […]

"You have the physical device, so why can’t it tell you where it's code lives?"

If you create something with Arduino and put it out into the world, there is no well-established link to the source. If you personally made the device, the source can get lost over time. If you didn’t create it, you could have a tough time tracking the source down. You have the physical device, why […]

A couple of weeks ago I happened to get an email from a professor at Shizuoka University named Yoichi Nagashima. Five of his students formed “Revolution-J” where they have created five prepared Jaminators hacked with Arduinos, connected to Max/MSP patches. Their detailed build log is in Japanese, but you can still get a basic idea of […]

After requests for the Arduino Mini Shield to be made available for purchase, I spoke with SparkFun to see if they could produce and sell the board. This way people won’t have to go through the hassle of making a board run and populating them themselves. Today I was pleasantly surprised to see the […]

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